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I bought this hard drive (Hitachi travelstar 1tb 7200 rpm) in may of this year 2013. When I replaced it, I lost one of the screws that attaches to the mylar cover that goes into the hard drive securing the cover in place, but I replaced it with another screw from a different laptop hd enclosure. After installing and a couple weeks of usage, from 5-12-13 to 5-28-13 it went up to 20 reallocated data sectors, then 10-26-13 to 11-16-13 up to 22, and finally 11-16-13 to 11-24-13 up to 29 reallocated. I have no problems with the laptop at all, everything is normal. Should I be worried?

It went up to 32 reallocated sectors this morning 81% health. Can I use macrium reflect intelligent sector copy to create a current disk image or will it copy over the bad sectors. My machine is windows 7 sp1 and I don't want to go through the hassle of re-installing all updates. Backup's are done

Hard Drive Issue - "Reallocated Sectors Count"I was going through the list of handy free programs ( https://www.sevenforums.com/software/92-free-great-programs-windows-7-a.html ) here on the forum. I downloaded and installed a program called crystal disk. It is showing a "Caution" message due to "Reallocated Sectors Count" being at 199.
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Hard Drive Issue - "Reallocated Sectors Count"Hi.
I'm Harsha.
I have a Sony Vaio laptop (Model - VPCEB26FG)
Recently, it fell off a table, and when I restarted it, it wasn't loading windows and I realized it was a Hard disk crash.
So I gave it for replacement at the authorized service centre, they put in a new Hard drive and returned...

Hard Drives Reallocated Sectors Count CautionHi, I installed a program called CrystalDiskInfo and the program states there is a caution under reallocated sectors count.
I attached a screen showing it.
Should I be worried about this? What should I do?
Thanks